Question Answering over Long Clinical Documents

In traditional claim processing system, adjusters or claim handling specialists need to read massively number of medical reports like diagnosis report, medical assessment, prescription daily for different types of decision making. Such a manual review process is time-consuming and tiring, which causes slowness in serving claimants and consequently unpleasant customer experience. In the digitalization era, […]

Read More
Evaluation of Drug Checking Program

Including people who use drugs (PWUD) in research related to the use of substances and community harm-reduction interventions is crucial for understanding the target population. This population can be difficult capture in research and may be hesitant to participate due to the stigmatized nature of substance use. This scoping review will summarize the existing literature […]

Read More
Using individual traits to enhance predictions of mind wandering

Mind wandering refers to when attention shifts away from the task at hand towards unrelated thoughts, which can interfere with learning. Researchers have identified various signs of mind wandering, such as changes in eye movements, heart rate, and brain activity. These signs can then be utilized to train computer models that predict when mind wandering […]

Read More
The Development of Physical Ability Standardsas a Bona Fide Occupational Requirement(BFOR) for the Ottawa Paramedic Service

Paramedics provide essential emergency care services for Canadians. However, in providing this service, paramedics are exposed to many highly demanding task and situations. Further, these high demands are often referred to when paramedics suffer pain, discomfort and even injury. While efforts are underway to lessen these demands where possible, due to the nature of paramedic […]

Read More
5G-Based Real-Time Smart and Proactive Healthcare

5G network connectivity is important in the quest to revolutionize healthcare in Canada. This is because 5G technology has the unique capability to support reliable high-speed data transfer. The technology also supports increased amount of healthcare data that can be transmitted in real time. This project seeks to 1) explore the use of 5G-enabled healthcare […]

Read More
Sensitivity analysis on ammonia shipping as a hydrogen carrier

The Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance commits to export clean Canadian hydrogen by 2025. It is critical to evaluate the life cycle carbon emissions associated with hydrogen transmission at sea. In this project, we will focus on analyzing ammonia as a hydrogen carrier for the shipping purpose. A sensitivity analysis will be conducted to evaluate the life […]

Read More
Empathetic Spaces Partnership – Open Source STEAM Kits and Publications

The Empathetic Spaces Partnership is an interdisciplinary research program investigating new materials, tools, methods and frameworks in the field of living responsive architecture, a new sub-discipline of architecture that focuses on how buildings respond to their occupants. The proposed research project supports this by having the intern document and be involved in developing concepts, tools […]

Read More
Audience Mass Control of Livestream Game Actions

A video game livestream is when one or more “streamers” broadcast themselves playing a video game to an online audience in real time. Our research project will explore the design of video games that allow large audiences (50+ people) to directly control aspects of a game during a livestream. We will investigate ways the audience […]

Read More
Algorithmic redaction of refugee court files

The goal of this research The system will be designed to intelligently propose redactions for court officers to examine, thereby integrating human oversight with advanced technological capabilities.is to engineer an intuitive and user-friendly system capable of automatically scrutinizing and eradicating confidential information contained within refugee court files in Canada. By leveraging cutting-edge language processing and […]

Read More
Investigating the mechanisms of Parkinson’s Disease

More than 100,000 Canadians are affected by Parkinson’s disease which affects the brain. It can disrupt the daily lives of patients as they find it challenging to walk, talk and express themselves. Current therapies to treat Parkinson’s disease provide symptomatic relief and are not effective. A protein called alpha synuclein is known to promote brain […]

Read More